EP3679825A1 - Druckverfahren und system einer nageldruckvorrichtung und ein medium dafür - Google Patents

Druckverfahren und system einer nageldruckvorrichtung und ein medium dafür Download PDF

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EP3679825A1
EP3679825A1 EP19192323.4A EP19192323A EP3679825A1 EP 3679825 A1 EP3679825 A1 EP 3679825A1 EP 19192323 A EP19192323 A EP 19192323A EP 3679825 A1 EP3679825 A1 EP 3679825A1
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Zhenqing LIN
Ran Li
Peng HE
Huanhuan LIANG
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Priority claimed from CN201910032978.9A external-priority patent/CN109785341A/zh
Priority claimed from CN201910032969.XA external-priority patent/CN109782975A/zh
Priority claimed from CN201910032951.XA external-priority patent/CN109744703A/zh
Priority claimed from CN201920066496.0U external-priority patent/CN210539527U/zh
Priority claimed from CN201910033488.0A external-priority patent/CN109572239B/zh
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  • the present disclosure relates to a nail printing field, particularly to a printing method and system of a nail printing apparatus, and a medium thereof.
  • a customer may use a nail printing apparatus to print the pattern.
  • a current printing method of the nail printing apparatus it is complicated and/or inconvenient to select an image to print, and/or adjust the image, and it is slow and inefficient to print the pattern on the nail.
  • the printing pattern may be printed on the finger around the nail.
  • the finger around the nail needs to be cleaned, and the cleaning process is cumbersome.
  • Each customer needs a long time period using the current printing method and the efficiency is relatively low.
  • a current nail printing apparatus fails to determine whether a position of the nail is appropriate, and/or the nail swags. If the position of the nail is inappropriate, and/or the nail swags, a pattern printed on the nail swags, and the pattern fails to display on the nail perfectly, thereby affecting the printing effect and having a relatively bad user experience.
  • the present disclosure may disclose a printing method, system, and medium of a nail printing apparatus to solve the technical problem that the efficiency of the prior printing method is low and the pattern is printed on the finger around the nail.
  • the present disclosure may disclosure a printing method of a nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a second region.
  • a printing method of the nail printing apparatus may include: displaying a user's nail model in the second region; displaying a second pattern in the second region.
  • the user's nail model may overlap at least a portion of the second pattern, and the at least a portion of the second pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be a used as printing pattern; and printing the printing pattern based on a printing instruction.
  • the present disclosure may disclosure a printing system of a nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a second region.
  • the printing system of the nail printing apparatus may include: a model displaying module, configured to display a user's nail model in the second region; a pattern displaying module, configured to display a second pattern in the second region, wherein the user's nail model may overlap at least a portion of the second pattern, and the at least a portion of the second pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be a printing pattern; and a printing module, configured to print the printing pattern based on a printing instruction.
  • the present disclosure may further provide a nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a storage, a processing device, and a computer program stored in the storage and operated in the processing device.
  • the processing device may implement the printing method of the nail printing apparatus in the first aspect according to the present disclosure during executing the program.
  • the present disclosure may further provide a computer readable medium having a computer program stored thereon.
  • the program may be executed by the processing device to implement the printing method of the nail printing apparatus provided by the first aspect of the disclosure.
  • the present disclosure may provide a printing method and system of a nail printing apparatus, and a medium thereof.
  • a portion of a pattern overlapping a user's nail model may be used as printing pattern. Only the portion of the pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be printed during the printing, thereby reducing the pattern to be printed, saving ink, prolonging a usage time of an ink cartridge, and helping reduce costs.
  • the pattern other than the user's nail model may be not printed.
  • the present disclosure may provide a nail printing apparatus to solve the technical problem that an existing touch screen does not perform well when displaying a contour of a user's nail.
  • the present disclosure may provide a nail printing apparatus, and the nail printing apparatus may include a control module, a camera device and a touch screen.
  • the camera device and the touch screen may be electrically connected to the control module.
  • the camera device may be configured to take a photo or a video of a user's finger.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a user's finger image captured by the camera device in real-time and highlight a user's nail model corresponding to a contour of the nail in the user's finger image.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a printing device.
  • the printing device and the control module may be electrically connected.
  • the touch screen may be further configured to display a first pattern for the user to select for printing.
  • the control module may be configured to identify the contour of the nail in the user's finger image.
  • the control module may be further configured to control the printing device to print a pattern within the contour of the nail according to the first pattern selected by a user.
  • the pattern printed on the contour of the nail may coincide with a portion or a whole of the first pattern.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may be configured to display a plurality of first patterns and a first pattern selected and touched by the user from the plurality of first patterns.
  • the second region may be configured to display the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121, and a position and/or size of the second pattern 121 may be adjusted by the user.
  • the at least a portion of the second pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be used as a printing pattern.
  • the second pattern may coincide with the selected first pattern.
  • the first interface may include a third region, and the third region may be configured to display an effect print image that the second pattern matches the user's nail model.
  • the first region, the second region, and the third region may be successively arranged from right to left on the touch screen.
  • the first interface may further include a fourth region, and the fourth region may be configured to display an operation icon and for the user to touch the operation icon to perform a corresponding operation.
  • the touch screen may be used for the user's touch operation to adjust the position of the second pattern and/or proportionally zoom in or out the size of the second pattern.
  • a center of the second pattern may overlap a center of the user's nail model.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a fingerprint identification module.
  • the fingerprint identification module and the control module may be electrically connected.
  • the fingerprint identification module may be configured to identify a fingerprint to unlock the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus may further include a wireless transmission module.
  • the wireless transmission module and the control module may be electrically connected.
  • the wireless transmission module may be configured to communicate with an external intelligent terminal by wireless connection.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a control module, a camera device and a touch screen.
  • the camera device and the touch screen may be electrically connected to the control module.
  • the camera device may be configured to take a photo or a video of a user's finger.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a user's finger image captured by the camera device in real-time and highlight a contour of the nail in the user's finger image.
  • the touch screen may highlight the contour of the user's nail in real-time so that the user may clearly see the contour of the user.
  • the user's nail is skewed, the user may visually see and adjust it.
  • the user experience may be good, the pattern printing effect may be improved and, and displayed in real-time.
  • the contour of the nail may move along when the user's finger moves, and the dynamic effect may be good.
  • the control module may be further configured to control the printing device to print a pattern within the contour of the nail according to the first pattern selected by the user.
  • the skin outside the contour of the user's nail may be not printed, thereby saving printing materials and a printing time.
  • the nail printing apparatus may need to coat an isolation glue around the nail before the nail printing to prevent the ink from being sprayed on the finger around the nail during printing the pattern.
  • the isolation glue may be cleaned after the printing is completed.
  • the nail printing apparatus may only print within the contour of the nail, and the ink may be not sprayed onto the finger, the isolation glue may be not coated in advance, and it may not need to clean the isolation glue after the printing, thereby reducing the nail printing steps, saving the nail printing time, and improving the efficiency of the nail printing.
  • the present disclosure may provide a printing method of a nail printing apparatus to solve a problem of not facilitating to select and adjust an image.
  • the present disclosure may provide a printing method of a nail printing apparatus, and the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the printing method of a nail printing apparatus may include: selecting one of the first patterns in the first region by the user, and displaying a second pattern in the second region according to the first pattern, wherein the second pattern overlaps a user's nail model pre-displayed in the second region; adjusting a position and a size of the overlap between the second pattern and the user's nail model; and clicking a predetermined printing pattern by the user so as to print a pattern of the overlap between the second pattern and the user's nail model on the user's nail.
  • the present disclosure may provide a printing method of a nail printing apparatus.
  • identifying a contour of a nail in a nail image and displaying a user's nail model corresponding to the contour of a nail By identifying a contour of a nail in a nail image and displaying a user's nail model corresponding to the contour of a nail; selecting a pattern from a predetermined image library, and generating a pattern to be printed, wherein the pattern to be printed overlaps the user's nail model; adjusting the pattern to be printed; and printing the adjusted pattern to be printed on a target nail.
  • a pattern may be selected and printed on the target nail quickly, and after the pattern is selected, the pattern may be adjusted to obtain a size or a position of expected effect.
  • first,” “second,” or the like may be used herein to describe various directions, acts, steps or elements, etc., but such orientations, acts, steps or elements are not limited by these terms. These terms may be only configured to separate the first direction, motion, step, or component from another direction, motion, step, or component.
  • a first speed difference may be a second speed difference without departing from the scope of the present disclosure, and similarly, the second speed difference may be referred to as the first speed difference.
  • Both the first speed difference and the second speed difference may be speed differences, but they are not the same speed difference.
  • the terms “first,” “second,” etc. may be not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated.
  • a feature defining "first” or “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the feature.
  • "a plurality of” means at least two, for example, two, three, etc., unless specifically defined otherwise.
  • a first embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a nail printing apparatus 1.
  • the nail printing apparatus 1 may include a touch screen 2, a nail holder (not shown), a camera device 3, a control module 4, and a printing device 5.
  • the touch screen 2, the camera device 3, and the printing device 5 may be electrically connected to the control module 4.
  • the nail holder may be configured to hold a nail of a user (also referred to as "user's nail") or a finger of the user (also referred to as "user's finger”).
  • the camera device 3 may take a photo of the user's finger.
  • the control module 4 may determine a position, a shape, a size of the nail and/or a contour of the nail (also referred to as "nail contour") based on a video or the photo of the user's finger taken by the camera device 3.
  • the touch screen may be configured to implement a touch operation of the user to print a pattern on the user's nail using the printing device 5, such as printing within the nail contour.
  • the camera device 3 may capture the user's finger, and the capturing may be an image of the user's nail (also referred to as "picture of the user's finger").
  • the camera device 3 may be a camera.
  • the type of the camera may be not limited to a digital camera, an analog camera, a color camera or a grayscale camera.
  • the control module 4 may be configured to control operations of various modules or devices connected thereto.
  • the control module 4 may be a control chip or an integrated device such as an industrial computer.
  • the touch screen 2 may be also configured to display different operation interfaces.
  • the touch screen 2 may be configured to display a first interface 10 and a second interface 20.
  • the first interface 10 may be accessed by operating the second interface 20.
  • the second interface 20 may be used as a boot interface of the nail printing apparatus 1.
  • the second interface 20 may include a plurality of function regions to access different function interfaces.
  • the first interface 10 may be a printing interface.
  • the touch screen 2 may have a structure of a regular touch screen.
  • the touch screen 2 may include a display screen and a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be placed on an upper side of the display, and the touch screen may have touching and displaying functions. It should be understood that in an embodiment that only needs to display the touch screen 2 and does not need to touch the touch screen 2 among the embodiments of the present disclosure, the touch screen 2 may be replaced by the display screen.
  • the second interface 20 may include a fifth region 21, a sixth region 22, a seventh region 23, and an eighth region 24.
  • the fifth region 21, the sixth region 22, the seventh region 23, and the eighth region 24 may partially overlap, or may be different display regions.
  • the fifth region 21, the seventh region 23, and the eighth region 24 may be different display regions. Portions of the fifth region 21 and the sixth region 22 may overlap each other.
  • the sixth region 22 may be placed on an upper layer of the fifth region 21.
  • the seventh region 23 may be used for displaying account management information and inputting account information by a touch of the user (also referred to as "user's touch"). If the user clicks a user login icon in the seventh region 23, the user may log in his/her account. When the user does not have an account, the user may also apply for registering his/her account by clicking an account registration icon in the seventh region 23.
  • a registration option of a (Quick Response) QR code in the seventh region 23 the user may synchronously log in the nail printing apparatus 1 and a mobile account by scanning the QR code via a mobile terminal. The synchronization of the mobile terminal and the nail printing apparatus 1 may realize resource synchronization and improve convenience for usage.
  • the eighth region 24 may be used for the user to select a video for playing, and perform a touch operation on the played video.
  • the video may include an advertisement, a nail printing tutorial, etc.
  • the touch operation may include an operation of playing a video, turning off a video, dragging a playing time, etc., and not enumerate here.
  • the eighth region 24 may be used for the user to operate a nail printing tutorial video and play it. By clicking the eighth region 24, the user may view the use tutorial of the nail printing apparatus 1 to understand how the nail printing apparatus 1 operates.
  • the fifth region 21 may include different image catalogues.
  • the different image catalogues may include different third patterns 211, and also include a same portion of the third patterns 211, i.e., the fifth region 21 may be configured to display the different image catalogues and the third patterns 211 under the selected image catalogues, and a third pattern 211 selected by the user's touch.
  • the selected third pattern 211 may be printed on the user's nail. When the user clicks the third pattern 211, the third pattern 211 may be selected.
  • the third pattern 211 may be suspended, amplified and displayed in a set position (for example, a middle position of the touch screen), and the user may slide the amplified and displayed third pattern 211 to the left, the right, an upper side or a lower side.
  • the third pattern 211 may be slid a pattern position to a corresponding side and reduced to a set size.
  • the third pattern 211 at an adjacent position on the left side, right side, the upper side or the lower side may be slid to the aforementioned set position and displayed amplifiedly.
  • a selection icon may be displayed on the circumferential side of the amplified third display pattern 211.
  • a five-positioned star icon may be placed at a position below the third pattern 211.
  • the third pattern 211 may enter into a specified image catalogue.
  • the five-positioned star icon may be only an example, and not used as a limitation to the technical solution, and other shapes of icons may also be used in other embodiments.
  • the image catalogue may include at least a first pattern catalogue 212 and a second pattern catalogue 213.
  • the first pattern catalogue 212 may be configured to store the third pattern 211 selected by the user from the second pattern catalogue 213.
  • the second pattern catalogue 213 may be configured to store a third pattern 211 designed by an operator or a third pattern 211 uploaded by a third party.
  • the first pattern catalogue 212 may be a favorite pattern catalogue.
  • the second pattern catalogue 213 may be an operator pattern catalogue.
  • the first pattern catalogue 212 may be favorite patterns of the user, and the patterns in this catalogue may be selected and added by the user. For example, you may add them from the second pattern catalogue 213, or download them from the web.
  • the first pattern catalogue 212 may be associated with an account of the user (also referred to as "user's count"). Logging into different accounts, different third patterns 211 may be set in the first pattern catalogue 212.
  • the touch screen 2 receives an instruction of displaying image patterns of the user, patterns corresponding to the instruction of displaying image patterns may be displayed in the fifth region 21.
  • the instruction of displaying image patterns may be clicking a pattern catalogue under the image catalogues of the user. If the user clicks the operator pattern catalogue in the image catalogues in the fifth region 21 of the touch screen, the third patterns 211 corresponding to the operator pattern catalogue may be displayed in the fifth region 21.
  • the image catalogues may also include a plurality of small sub catalogues.
  • the sub catalogues of the images may include at least one corresponding third pattern 211.
  • the operator pattern catalogue may include a cartoon catalogue, a game catalogue, a landscape catalogue, and an animal catalogue.
  • the cartoon catalogue may include patterns of characters in cartoons or anime.
  • the game catalogue may include patterns of game characters.
  • the landscape catalogue may include patterns of beautiful landscapes.
  • the animal catalogue may include different animal patterns.
  • the third pattern 211 corresponding to the adding instruction and the second pattern catalogue 213 may be added to the first pattern catalogue 212.
  • the adding instruction may be pressing the third pattern 211 in a pattern catalogue selected by the user.
  • the long-pressed third pattern 211 may be added to the first pattern catalogue 212.
  • the "long-pressed” may be defined as pressing for more than 2s.
  • the user may choose their favorite patterns through the fifth region 21 to print them on their nails.
  • the classification of the images may help users quickly locate a catalogue of interest of the third patterns 211, and the third pattern 211 may be selected more conveniently and quickly. Adding the third pattern 211 to a target catalogue by clicking the third icon or long-pressing the selected third pattern 211 may make the operation smarter.
  • the sixth region 22 may be used for displaying an operation icon, and for the user to touch the operation icon to enter a corresponding operation interface.
  • the sixth region 22 may include a painted printing icon 221 and a system setting icon 222.
  • the sixth region 22 may be configured to display the painted printing icon 221 and the system setting icon 222.
  • the painted printing icon 221 and the system setting icon 222 may both be floating icons.
  • the user may drag the painted printing icon 221 and the system setting icon 222 to change positions of the painted printing icon 221 and the system setting icon in the second interface 20. It should be understood that the positions of the painted printing icon 221 and the system setting icon 222 may be not limited, and the positions of the painted printing icon 221 and the system setting icon 222 may be freely dragged.
  • the user When the user clicks the system setting icon 222, the user may enter the system setting interface, and the user may set an operating system of the nail printing apparatus 1.
  • the user may click and touch the painted printing icon 221 to enter the first interface 10 from the second interface 20 to perform a corresponding operation, and finally print the selected third pattern 211 on the user's nail. It should be understood that when clicking the painted printing icon 221, the user may enter the first interface 10 from the second interface 20, and select the third pattern 211 for printing by operating the first interface 10.
  • the first interface 10 may include a first region 11, a second region 12, a third region 13, and a fourth region 14.
  • the first region 11, the second region 12, the third region 13, and the fourth region 14 may partially overlap, or may be different regions.
  • the first region 11, the second region 12, the third region 13, and the fourth region 14 may be different display regions.
  • the first region 11, the second region 12, and the third region 13 may be successively arranged from right to left on the display interface of the touch screen 2.
  • the first region 11 may be configured to display a plurality of first patterns 111 and a first pattern 111 selected and touched by the user from the plurality of first patterns 111.
  • a mode of the touch may be common, e.g., single clicking, double clicking or dragging.
  • the first pattern 111 may correspond to the third pattern 211 under the first pattern catalogue 212 in the second interface 20.
  • the first pattern 111 displayed in the first region 11 may be the same as the third pattern 211 of the first pattern catalogue 212 in the second interface 20.
  • the user may slide the touch screen, such as sliding the first region of the touch screen to display other portion of the first pattern 111, or click the first pattern 111 to slide to a specific direction.
  • the specific direction may be up, down, left or right. It may be very convenient to view the other portion of the first pattern 111 by touching the touch screen 2 and the sliding.
  • the second region 12 may be configured to display the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121. A position and/or size of the second pattern 121 may be adjusted by the user. The second pattern 121 may coincide with the selected first pattern. When the user clicks the first pattern 121 in the first region 11, the second pattern 121 corresponding to the first pattern 111 may be displayed in the second region 12.
  • the user's nail model 122 may be an image of a region (also referred to as "region image") of the nail identified by the control module 4 based on the video or photo of the user's finger taken by the camera device 3. The user's nail model 122 may correspond to the user's nail.
  • the second region may display the user's nail model 122 corresponding to the user's finger image in real-time.
  • the camera device 3 may take the user's finger image of the user's finger, and the control module may identify a contour of the nail based on the user's finger image.
  • the user's nail model 122 may also move as the user's nail moves.
  • the user's nail model 122 may be displayed to facilitate the user to check whether the nail is placed is in a correct position, or whether the nail is skewed so as to adjust the nail to a standard placement before the printing, which may have better visibility, good user experience, better print quality and user satisfaction.
  • the second region 12 may also display an image of the user's finger taken by the camera device 3 in real-time.
  • the user's nail model 122 may be highlighted, and the user's nail model may be more clear or brighter than the color or pattern around the user's nail model.
  • the nail is coated with white or other high-brightness base glue, which may be then identified by the control module 4, and finally displayed on the touch screen in real-time.
  • An effect of the user's nail model 122 corresponding to the user's nail may look "brighter" than other regions.
  • the processing device may perform brightness compensation on the identified user's nail model to highlight it, or a background color of the region other than the user's nail model in the second region may be dark black.
  • the user's nail model 122 may be displayed to facilitate for the user to check whether the nail placement is correct, or whether the nail is skewed so as to adjust the nail to a standard placement before the printing, which may have better visibility, good user experience, better print quality and user satisfaction.
  • the second pattern 121 may be the same size as the first pattern 111, or may not coincide with the size of the first pattern 111. The position and/or size of the second pattern 121 may be subsequently changed by the user.
  • the user may change the size of the second pattern 121 by using a multi-touch method on the touch screen 2.
  • the size of the second pattern 121 may be adjusted by sliding the two fingers in the second region 12 and adjusting a distance between the two fingers.
  • the second pattern 121 may be zoomed out.
  • the second pattern 121 may be zoomed in.
  • the second pattern 121 may be easily and quickly operated by the touch method, and the second pattern 121 may be not skewed, and the adjustment effect may be better, which may be advantageous for improving the printing effect and the user satisfaction.
  • the touch screen 2 may be operated by the user to change the position of the second pattern 121.
  • the user may touch the second pattern 121 in the second region 12 by one finger, and the position of the second pattern 121 may be changed by sliding the finger in the second region 12.
  • the user's finger required to print the pattern may not move on the nail holder, and the user's nail model 122 of the second region 12 may not move.
  • the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121 may partially overlap.
  • the overlapped pattern of the second pattern 121 and the user's nail model 122 may be used as a printing pattern, i.e., a pattern printed on a contour of the user's nail.
  • the printing pattern may be a portion of the pattern or a whole of the second pattern 121, i.e., the pattern printed on the contour of the nail may coincide with the portion or the whole of the first pattern 111.
  • the touch screen 2 may be also configured to display the first pattern 111 for the user to select for the printing.
  • the control module 4 may identify the contour of the nail in the image of the user's finger.
  • the control module 4 may control the printing device 5 to print the pattern within the contour of the nail according to the first pattern 111 selected by the user.
  • the pattern printed on the contour of the nail may be the portion or the whole of the first pattern 111.
  • an area of the region of the pattern on the contour of the nail may be 90%-99% of an area of the region of the contour of the nail.
  • the area of the region of the pattern on the contour of the nail may be less than the size of the nail so that an edge of the user's nail edge may have no pattern.
  • the pattern may be not damaged and may maintain good appearance.
  • the overlapped pattern of the second pattern 121 and the user's nail model 122 may be used as the printing pattern, which may be advantageous for saving printing ink and reducing cost. It may be unnecessary to coat an isolation glue on the finger around the nail, since the finger around the user's nail may unlikely be printed, which may save a cleaning step after the printing and improve the nail printing efficiency.
  • the user may touch different positions of the second pattern 121 in the second region 12 with two fingers, and slide the two fingers synchronously, and the distance between the two fingers may not change, and the position of the second pattern 121 may follow the finger accordingly.
  • the center of the second pattern 121 may overlap the center of the user's nail model 122.
  • the center in this embodiment may be a geometric center or a geometric center of gravity, and not specifically limited herein. For a regular pattern, the geometric center may overlap the geometric center of gravity.
  • the third region 13 may be configured to display a print effect image that the second pattern 121 matches the user's nail model 122.
  • the print effect image that the second pattern 121 matches the user's nail model 122 may be determining a portion of the second pattern 121 that matches a shape and the size of the user's nail model 122, fitting thereof with the user's nail model and then displaying thereof in the third region 13. Therefore, the user may preview the effect of printing the printing pattern on his/her nail in the third region 13 thereby facilitating the user to select the favorite pattern and adjust the pattern to the best printing effect, which is highly practical.
  • the fourth region 14 may be configured to display the operation icon and for the user to touch the operation icon to perform the corresponding operation.
  • the operation icon may include the rotation icon, the horizontal mirroring icon, the vertical mirroring icon, and the printing icon.
  • the second pattern 121 may be rotated.
  • the second pattern 121 may implement vertical mirroring.
  • the pattern may be printed on the user's nail. It may be convenient for the user to quickly adjust the second pattern to improve printing efficiency by setting common shortcuts (e.g., in the fourth region) for image adjustment, which may be easy to operate, and efficient.
  • the second region 12 may be configured to display the user's nail model 122 in real-time in the first time period; display the effect image of the overlap between the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121 in real-time in the second time period; when the second pattern 121 is adjusted by the user, display the effect image of the overlap between the user's nail model 122 and the adjusted second pattern 121 in real-time, i.e., when the user adjusts the second pattern 121, the touch screen 2 may display it in real-time; and display a printing process of printing the pattern of the overlap between the second pattern 121 and the user's nail model 122 in a third time period.
  • the printing process may begin from printing a first pixel on the nail to completing the printing.
  • the actual printing condition may be displayed in real-time, or may simulate a printing process of the second pattern 121 in the user's nail model 122 according to printing parameters corresponding to the second pattern 121 to be printed.
  • the simulation printing process may be synchronized with the actual printing.
  • the first time period may begin from placing the finger in the nail holder within a shooting range of the camera device 3, to a time before displaying the second pattern 121 in the second region 12.
  • the second time period may begin from displaying the second pattern 121 in the second region 12, to a time before printing, i.e., clicking the printing icon.
  • the third time period may begin from clicking the printing icon to completely printing the overlap of the second pattern 121 and the user's nail model 122.
  • the second region 12 may set different display and/or touch modes in different time periods, and the content displayed in different time periods may change according to the printing process so that the user may observe the current state of the nail at each stage, and the user experience may be better.
  • the nail printing apparatus may divide different regions on the touch screen.
  • the first region 11 may be configured to display a plurality of first patterns 111 and a first pattern 111 selected and touched by the user from the plurality of patterns 111.
  • the second region 12 may be configured to display the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121.
  • the position and size of the second pattern 121 may be adjusted by the user, which may make the interface displayed on the touch screen 2 simple.
  • the user may touch the first pattern 111 of interest directly, and the second pattern 121 corresponding to the selected first pattern 111 may be displayed in the second region 12.
  • the user operation may be simple, and the pattern desired to be printed on the nail may be quickly selected.
  • the user's nail model 122 may be displayed in the second region 12, and the user may determine whether it is necessary to adjust a front, rear, left and right position or an angle of the nail according to the current condition of the user's nail model 122, thereby improving the user experience.
  • the matching effect of the adjusted second pattern and the user's nail model 122 may allow the user to visually preview the printing pattern on his/her own nail, and help improve the printing quality, and enhance customer satisfaction.
  • control module 4 may include an obtaining module 41.
  • the obtaining module 41 may be configured to obtain a region image or an image of the user's nail, and obtain the region image or the image of the user's nail by controlling the camera device 3.
  • the control module 4 may include a model displaying module 42.
  • the model displaying module 42 may be configured to display the user's nail model 122 corresponding to the region image or the image of the nail in the second region 12 in real-time.
  • the control module 4 may include a pattern identification module 43.
  • the pattern identification module 43 may be configured to identify the first pattern 111 selected by the user in the first region 11.
  • the control module 4 may include a pattern displaying module 44.
  • the pattern displaying module 44 may be configured to display the second pattern 121 in the second region 12.
  • An image of the second pattern 121 may coincide with an image of the selected first pattern 111.
  • the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121 may partially overlap.
  • a center of the second pattern 121 may overlap a center of the user's nail model 122.
  • a portion of the second pattern 121 overlapped the user's nail model 122 may be a printing pattern.
  • the control module 4 may include a preview displaying module 45.
  • the preview displaying module 45 may be configured to display an effect print preview that the printing pattern is printed on the user's nail in the third region 13, e.g., in real-time.
  • the control module 4 may include a first receiving module 46.
  • the first receiving module 46 may be configured to receive an adjustment instruction of adjusting a position and/or a size of the second pattern 121 via the touch screen.
  • the control module 4 may include an adjustment module 47.
  • the adjustment may be configured to adjust the position and/or the size of the second pattern 121 according to the adjustment instruction of adjusting the printing pattern.
  • the control module 4 may include a printing module 403.
  • the printing module 403 may be configured to print the printing pattern according to a printing instruction.
  • control module 4 may further include a second receiving module 48.
  • the second receiving module 48 may be configured to receive a slide instruction.
  • control module 4 may further include a slide displaying module 49.
  • the slide displaying module 49 may be configured to display a plurality of first patterns 111 in the first region 11 after sliding according to the slide instruction.
  • control module 4 may further include a third receiving module 401.
  • the third receiving module 401 may be configured to receive a center alignment instruction.
  • control module 4 may further include an aligning module 402.
  • the aligning module 402 may be configured to overlap the position of the second pattern 121 corresponding to the center alignment instruction and the center of the user's nail model 122 according to the center alignment instruction.
  • the obtaining module 41 may include a nail image obtaining module.
  • the nail image obtaining module may be configured to obtain an image of the user's nail (also referred to as "user's nail image").
  • the obtaining module 41 may include a nail region image obtaining module.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may identify a region image of the nail (also referred to as "nail region image”) according to the image of the user's nail.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include a grayscale processing module.
  • the grayscale processing module may be configured to perform grayscale processing on the image of the user's nail to obtain a grayscale image of the user's nail.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include an average grayscale value obtaining module.
  • the average grayscale value obtaining module may configure to calculate an average grayscale value of the grayscale image of the user's nail.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include a difference calculation module.
  • the difference calculation module may be configured to obtain a difference of average grayscale values between the average grayscale value of the grayscale image of the user and an average grayscale value of the predetermined background image.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include a color obtaining module.
  • the color obtaining module may be configured to obtain a first color and a second color from the user's nail image when the difference of average grayscale values is greater than a predetermined difference threshold of the grayscale values.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include a contrast ratio obtaining module.
  • the contrast ratio obtaining module may be configured to obtain a contrast ratio between the first color and the second color.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include a comparison module.
  • the comparison module may be configured to compare the contrast ratio with a predetermined contrast ratio threshold.
  • the nail region image obtaining module may include a target image obtaining module.
  • the target image obtaining module may be configured to initiate a predetermined nail segmentation algorithm to obtain the region image of the nail if the contrast ratio is greater than the predetermined contrast ratio threshold.
  • the obtaining module may include a finger image obtaining module.
  • the finger image obtaining module may be configured to obtain an image of the user's finger.
  • the obtaining module may include a nail image obtaining module.
  • the nail image obtaining module may be configured to obtain a nail image according to the user's finger image.
  • the nail image module may include a grayscale processing module.
  • the grayscale processing module may be configured to perform grayscale on the finger image.
  • the nail image module may include a color obtaining module.
  • the color obtaining module may be configured to obtain a first color and a second color.
  • the nail image module may include a contrast ratio obtaining module.
  • the contrast ratio obtaining module may be configured to obtain a contrast ratio between the first color and the second color.
  • the nail image obtaining module may include a comparison module.
  • the comparison module may be configured to compare the contrast ratio with a predetermined contrast ratio threshold.
  • the nail image obtaining module may include a target image obtaining module.
  • the target image obtaining module may be configured to initiate a predetermined nail segmentation algorithm to obtain the image of the nail if the contrast ratio is greater than the predetermined contrast ratio threshold.
  • the pattern identification module 43 may include a first coordinate obtaining module.
  • the first coordinate obtaining module may be configured to obtain a touch coordinate of the user in the first region 11.
  • the pattern identification module 43 may include a pattern obtaining module.
  • the pattern obtaining module may be configured to identify the first pattern 111 corresponding to the touch coordinate 11.
  • the pattern displaying module 44 may include a second coordinate obtaining module.
  • the pattern displaying module 44 may be configured to obtain coordinates of the second region 12.
  • the pattern displaying module 44 may include a second pattern displaying module.
  • the second pattern displaying module may be configured to display an image of the first pattern 111 corresponding to the touch coordinate as the second pattern 121 in the second region 12 such that the user's nail model 122 and the second pattern 121 may partially overlap.
  • control module 4 The function of each module included in the control module 4 may be explained in the subsequent embodiments.
  • the first embodiment of the present disclosure may disclosure a nail printing apparatus 1.
  • an interface displayed on the touch screen 2 may be simple for the user to operate.
  • the user may select a pattern to be printed on the nail quickly. A portion of the pattern may be selected for the printing, and the user may visually preview the pattern printed on the nail.
  • nail printing apparatus of the first embodiment of the present disclosure may be supplemented and illustrated as a subsequent embodiment.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a control module, a camera device and a touch screen.
  • the camera device and the touch screen may be electrically connected to the control module.
  • the camera device may be configured to take a photo or a video of a user's finger.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a user's finger image captured by the camera device in real-time and highlight a contour of the nail in the user's finger image.
  • the touch screen may highlight the contour of the user's nail in real-time so that the user may clearly see the contour of the user. By observing the contour of the finger, a placement position of the finger and a flatness of the nail may be facilitated to adjust, thereby improving the printing effect.
  • the printing effect may be displayed in real-time, the contour of the nail may move along when the user's finger moves, and the dynamic effect may be good.
  • the control module of the present disclosure may be further configured to control the printing device to print a pattern within the contour of the nail according to the first pattern selected by the user.
  • the skin outside the contour of the user's nail thus may be not printed, thereby saving printing materials and a printing time.
  • the nail printing apparatus may need to coat an isolation glue around the nail before the nail printing to prevent the ink from being sprayed on the finger around the nail during printing the pattern.
  • the isolation glue may have to be cleaned after the printing is completed.
  • the nail printing apparatus may print only within the contour of the nail, and thus, the ink is less likely to be sprayed onto the finger, the isolation glue may be not needed to be coated in advance, and to be cleaned after the printing, thereby reducing the nail printing steps, saving the time for nail printing, and improving the efficiency of the nail printing.
  • a second embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a nail printing method based on the foregoing embodiment.
  • the nail printing method may be executed by the control module.
  • the nail printing method may be implemented by means of hardware and/or softwares and usually integrated in the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus in the first embodiment of the present disclosure may print the user's nail.
  • the nail printing method may include:
  • the region image of the user's nail may be an image only including a region of the user's nail.
  • a user's nail image may be first obtained by the camera device disclosed in the first embodiment of the present disclosure, and the control module may obtain the region image of the nail according to the user's nail image.
  • the user's nail image may include a user's finger, a nail, and a background of the image captured by the camera device, i.e., the user's nail image may be the user's finger image of the foregoing embodiment.
  • a manner for obtaining the region image of the user's nail may be not limited as long as the region image of the user's nail is obtained.
  • the second region may be the second region of the first interface as referred to the first embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the user's nail model may also sway following the user's finger in real-time.
  • the user's nail model may be highlighted, i.e., compared with a color or a pattern of a surrounding of the user's nail model, the user's nail model may be more clear, brighter or have a higher brightness.
  • a background color of a region other than the user's nail model in the second region may be dark black.
  • an extension direction of the user's nail model may be parallel to an up and down direction of a sight of the user on the display interface of the touch screen.
  • the extension direction of the user's nail model may be perpendicular to a left and right direction of the sight of the user.
  • the extension direction of the user's nail model may be ergonomic and easy for the user to observe.
  • the first region may be the first region of the first interface as referred to the first embodiment of the present disclosure. If the user clicks the first pattern in the first region, the first pattern clicked by the user in the first region may be identified. The first pattern clicked by the user may be the first pattern selected by the user. Preferably, the first region may include a first pattern in a predetermined row. The first region may have eight first patterns in four rows and two columns. It is for the purpose of illustration only and is not a limitation of the technical solution.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the control module receives the slide instruction, the plurality of slid first patterns after sliding may be displayed in the first region in real-time according to the slide instruction.
  • the slide instruction may be an instruction generated by a sliding operation of the user's finger in the first region of the touch screen.
  • the sliding operation may be sliding up, sliding down, sliding left or sliding right.
  • the sliding operation may make it easier for the user to view the selected image.
  • the control module may display the plurality of first patterns after the sliding in the first region based on the slide instruction. By sliding the finger on the touch screen, the first pattern not displayed may be viewed, the operability may be good, the operation may be simple and fast, and the visual dynamic effect may be good.
  • the second pattern matching the selected first pattern may be displayed in the second region.
  • the second pattern may cover an upper layer of the user's nail model for display, and may overlap a portion of the user's nail model.
  • the center of the second pattern may overlap the center of the user's nail model.
  • the user may click on the first pattern.
  • the second pattern corresponding to the first pattern may be directly displayed in the second region and overlap the center of the user's nail model without requiring the user to drag the pattern to the position of the user's nail model, and the operation is simple and quick.
  • the second pattern may directly cover the user's nail model.
  • Image elements in the second pattern may be substantially on the user's nail model, and a count of times that the user adjusts the second pattern may be reduced, which is advantageous for improving the efficiency for adjusting the pattern.
  • the size of the second pattern may be automatically adjusted to match the size of the user's nail model.
  • the center of the second pattern may follow the center of the user's nail model to move synchronously. When the user's nail model is rotated, the second pattern may remain in the same orientation. When the user's nail model moves, the position of the second pattern may move synchronously. However, when the user's nail model is skewed, the second pattern may not rotate following the skew of the user's nail model.
  • the second pattern may be generated from the first pattern based on a predetermined ratio such that the size of the second pattern matches the size of the user's nail model.
  • the second pattern may be generated by zooming in or out the first pattern according to the predetermined ratio.
  • the size of the second pattern may be equal to or larger than the size of the user's nail model so that the user may adjust the size of the second pattern.
  • the predetermined ratio may be equal to or larger than 1. If the first pattern displayed in the first region is smaller than the size of the user's nail model 122, the predetermined ratio may be equal to smaller than 1.
  • the size of the second pattern may be larger than the user's nail model.
  • a portion of the second pattern may be selected to be printed on the user's nail.
  • the overlapped pattern of the second pattern and the user's nail model may be used as a printing pattern, i.e., a pattern printed on the user's nail.
  • the printing pattern may be highlighted to facilitate the user to view the printing effect of the portion of the pattern printed on the nail to adjust the pattern located within the user's nail model.
  • a long side of the second pattern may be equal to a long side of the user's nail model.
  • a wide side of the second pattern may be proportionally reduced or enlarged.
  • the size of the first pattern may be smaller than the size of the user's nail model.
  • the user may select the first pattern, and when the second pattern matching the selected first pattern is displayed in the second region, If the user wants the second pattern larger than the user's nail model, the second pattern may need to be enlarged so that the long side of the user's nail model may be equal to the long side of the user's nail model, and the wide side of the second pattern may be zoomed out.
  • the second region may be the second region of the first interface as referred to the first embodiment of the present disclosure. If the user selects a first pattern, the second pattern matching the selected pattern of the first pattern may be displayed in the second region, and the effect print preview that the printing pattern is displayed on the user's nail may be displayed in the third region.
  • the effect print preview may be a pattern that the printing pattern is fitted to the user's nail model. According to the effect print preview, the user may determine whether the printing pattern printed on his/her own finger satisfies his/her own requirements. If the requirements are not satisfied, the pattern may be changed in time, which is in line with practicality. By viewing the preview pattern, the user may be assisted in adjusting the second pattern to obtain a satisfied printing effect, and the user experience may be better.
  • the control module may receive the adjustment instruction of adjusting the position and/or the size of second pattern by the user via the touch screen.
  • the user may generate the adjustment instruction by operating the touch screen.
  • the adjustment instruction may include a movement instruction, a rotation instruction, a horizontal mirror instruction, a vertical mirror instruction or a proportional scaling instruction of a multi-touch.
  • the first interface may include a rotation icon, a horizontal mirroring icon and a vertical mirroring icon.
  • the rotation icon may be configured to generate the rotation instruction based on touch of the user.
  • the horizontal mirroring icon may be configured to generate the horizontal mirror instruction based on the touch of the user.
  • the vertical mirroring icon may be configured to generate the vertical mirror instruction based on the touch of the user.
  • the user's finger may press the first interface and move the finger to press the first interface to generate a movement instruction.
  • the user may press the first interface with two fingers and move the two fingers pressed the first interface to generate a multi-touch instruction for proportionally zooming in or out. It should be understood that the manner of generating the adjustment instruction may be not limited in this embodiment. It may be convenient for the user to quickly adjust the second pattern to improve printing efficiency by setting common shortcuts for image adjustment.
  • the position and/or size of the second pattern may be moved according to the movement instruction.
  • the second pattern may be flipped according to the flip instruction.
  • the second pattern may be mirrored horizontally according to the horizontal mirror instruction.
  • the second pattern may be mirrored horizontally according to the vertical mirroring instruction.
  • the second pattern may be proportionally scaled according to the multi-touch instruction for proportionally zooming in or out.
  • the adjustment may be only proportionally zoomed in or out and may not change a scaling relationship of the image.
  • the control module may receive the center alignment instruction.
  • a touch position of the second pattern corresponding to the center alignment instruction of the user may be overlapped the center of the user's nail model, i.e., receiving the center alignment instruction.
  • the touch position of the second pattern corresponding to the center alignment instruction of the user may be overlapped the center of the user's nail model.
  • the center alignment instruction may be generated by operating the touch screen. Specifically, the center alignment instruction may be generated by clicking the touch screen by the user. If the user clicks on a certain position of the second pattern of the touch screen, a center alignment instruction may be generated.
  • the position of the second pattern corresponding to the center alignment instruction may be the certain position on which the user clicks of the second pattern of the touch screen.
  • a position on which the user's finger clicks of the second pattern, and the position may overlap the center of the user's nail model. The user may quickly adjust a portion of the second pattern as a printing pattern.
  • the printing pattern of the first embodiment of the present disclosure may be printed on the user's nail.
  • the user's nail may be coated with a base glue of the nail to facilitate the printing.
  • the printed printing pattern may be displayed in the second region in real-time. Specifically, if a portion of the printing pattern printing on the user's finger, the portion of the printed printing pattern may be also displayed in the second region in real-time. When displayed in the second region, the portion of the printed printing pattern may be displayed within the user's nail model of the second region.
  • the user's nail model may correspond to the user's nail.
  • the pattern displayed in the user's nail model may correspond to the printing pattern printed on the user's finger.
  • the user may observe the printing progress of the printing pattern in real-time, so that the user may not have a tense feeling of not seeing nail conditions.
  • a portion of the printing pattern is white when a white glue is coated on the nail, the portion of the white printing pattern may be not printed.
  • S21 may include:
  • the image of the user's nail may first be obtained by the camera device in the first embodiment of the present disclosure, and the control module may identify the region image of the nail according to the image of the user's nail.
  • how to obtain the region image of the user's nail may be not limited.
  • a nail segmentation algorithm method may be used to obtain the region image of the user's nail.
  • the image segmentation algorithm may include a threshold-based segmentation algorithm, an edge-based segmentation algorithm, a region-based segmentation algorithm, a clustering-based segmentation algorithm, or the like, or any combination thereof.
  • S212 may include:
  • the grayscale processing for the color image of the user's nail may perform firstly.
  • the user's nail image may be converted into a grayscale image so that the subsequent contrast ratio of the first color and the second color may be more accurate, and the accuracy of the nail recognition and segmentation algorithm may be improved.
  • the obtained image of the user's nail may be a grayscale image, and the grayscale processing may be not required.
  • the calculating the average grayscale value of the grayscale image of the user's nail may be a commonly used method in the image processing, and details may be not described herein, and related materials may be referred.
  • a sum of grayscale values of all pixels in the grayscale image of the user's nail may be determined.
  • the number of all pixels in the grayscale image of the user's nail may be determined.
  • the average grayscale value may be a ratio of the sum of grayscale values of all pixels to the number of all pixels.
  • the predetermined background image may be an image obtained when no user's finger is placed on the nail holder, or may be an image collected in a last period for collecting images.
  • the average grayscale value of the grayscale image of the user's nail and the average grayscale value of the predetermined background image may be calculated, respectively.
  • the difference between the two average grayscale values may be obtained to obtain the difference of the average grayscale values.
  • the difference of the average grayscale values may be compared with the predetermined difference threshold of the grayscale values. If the difference of the average grayscale values is greater than the predetermined difference threshold of the grayscale values, the process may proceed to step S2124.
  • the process may return to step S211 to reobtain the user's nail image.
  • the predetermined difference threshold of the grayscale values may be 10, and only an example and not intended to limit the technical solution.
  • the user's nail image may include a region image of the user's nail and an image of other portions.
  • a difference between a color of the nail region image and a color of the image of the other portions may be large.
  • the first color may be the color of the nail
  • the second color may be the color of a portion other than the nail region image. Therefore, the first color and the second color may be obtained according to the user's nail image.
  • a base glue of the nail may be manually coated on the target nail or after the base glue is coated, a white glue may be coated, which may facilitate the printing of the pattern and prolong a maintaining time of the pattern on the nail.
  • the pattern When there is no base glue on the nail, the pattern may be not easy to adhere to the nail.
  • the base glue After the base glue is coated, if the white glue is coated on the nail, the between the color of the nail and the color of the portion other than the nail may be larger, which may be beneficial to improve the accuracy of identifying the nail.
  • the contrast ratio may be obtained according to the first color and the second color, and the method for obtaining the image contrast ratio may be a common method in the image processing, and not be described in detail herein.
  • the contrast ratio threshold may be 50%.
  • the contrast ratio threshold may also be selected according to actual demands, and not specifically limited herein.
  • a predetermined nail segmentation algorithm may be initiated to obtain the region image of the nail if the contrast ratio is greater than the predetermined contrast ratio threshold.
  • the nail segmentation algorithm may segment the region image of the nail from the nail image more accurately.
  • the user's nail model described in the first embodiment may match the region image of the nail segmented by the nail segmentation algorithm.
  • the embodiment of the present disclosure may first compare the average grayscale value of the user's nail image with the average grayscale value of the predetermined background image.
  • the first color and the second color may be obtained from the image of the user's nail if the difference of the average grayscale values is greater than the predetermined difference threshold of the grayscale values.
  • the predetermined nail segmentation algorithm may be initiated to obtain the nail image.
  • the predetermined nail segmentation algorithm may be not initiated, thereby reducing the amount of computation data and helping extend the life of the processing device and reducing the waste of electric power.
  • S23: the identifying the first pattern selected by the user in the first region may include:
  • each position of the display interface of the touch screen may have a coordinate.
  • a coordinate of a position that the user clicks on the touch screen may be obtained, i.e., the touch coordinate of the user.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns. If the touch coordinate falls within a coordinate range of the first pattern, the first pattern and the touch coordinate may correspond to each other, and the first pattern corresponding to the touch coordinate may be identified. The first pattern selected by the user may be quickly identified.
  • the user may directly select the first pattern by single clicking, and the operation may be convenient and fast, and the user experience may be good.
  • the displaying a second pattern in the second region, wherein the second pattern coincides with the first pattern, the user's nail model overlaps a portion of the second pattern, a center of the second pattern overlaps a center of the user's nail model, and the portion of the second pattern overlapping the user's nail model is used as a printing pattern may include:
  • a center coordinate and an edge coordinate of the user's nail model in the second region may be preferably obtained.
  • the center coordinate of the user's nail model in the second region may be obtained, and all coordinates of the second region may also be obtained.
  • the second pattern and the user's nail model may be overlapped.
  • the center of the second pattern 121 may overlap the center of the user's nail model 122.
  • a main image of the second pattern may be overlaid in the nail region, thereby reducing the count of adjustments to the second pattern by the user.
  • the second pattern may be spread over the second region or the second pattern may occupy a certain proportion of the second region.
  • the second pattern may be automatically overlapped the user's nail model, thereby reducing the operation of dragging the second pattern to the user's nail model of the user, saving the user operation and improving the nail printing efficiency.
  • a third embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a method for obtaining a nail region image of a nail printing apparatus based on the foregoing embodiments.
  • the method for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus may be performed by a system for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the system may be implemented by means of hardware and/or software and usually integrated in the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure may be configured to obtain the nail region image.
  • the method for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the method may also include: Comparing the contrast ratio with the predetermined contrast threshold.
  • the method may also include:
  • the third embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the method for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the first color and the second color may be obtained from the user's nail image, and the contrast ratio between the first color and the second color may be obtained. If the contrast ratio is greater than a predetermined contrast ratio threshold, the predetermined nail segmentation algorithm to obtain the nail region image may be initiated. When no user's finger or no cardboard is placed within the nail printing apparatus, or a difference between colors of the base glue coated on the user's nail and the surrounding environment is small, the predetermined nail segmentation algorithm may be not initiated, which may reduce the amount of computation data and help extend the life of the processing device and reduce the waste of electric power.
  • the method may further include:
  • the technical solution of this embodiment may compare the average grayscale value of the grayscale image of the user's nail with the average grayscale value of the predetermined background image to determine whether to continue the following step of obtaining the colors.
  • the difference of the average grayscale values is less than or equal to the predetermined difference threshold of the average grayscale values, it may be considered that no user's nail is placed in the nail printing apparatus, and no subsequent processing steps may be performed, otherwise, the subsequent processing may continue, which may save the amount of processing data and help extend the life of the processing device.
  • a fourth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a method for obtaining a nail region image of a nail printing apparatus.
  • This embodiment may provide a solution for processing the nail region image based on the foregoing embodiment.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display the first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the touch screen may be the touch screen of the first embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the method for obtaining the nail region image may include:
  • each step of the method for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus provided in this embodiment may refer to the steps of the nail printing method in the second embodiment, and the steps may be not explained and illustrated in this embodiment.
  • the fourth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the method for acquiring the region image of the nail of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail model corresponding to the user's nail may be displayed.
  • the second pattern corresponding to the first pattern selected by the user may be overlaid on the user's nail model.
  • the effect of overlying the selected pattern on the user's nail model may be realized by clicking, and the operation is simple, and the user may not need to drag.
  • the center of the second pattern may overlap the center of the user's nail model, so that the user may adjust the position and size of the second pattern to adjust the pattern printed on the nail.
  • the user may also view the pattern printed on the nail through the user's nail model.
  • after 47 it may also include:
  • the position or size of the second pattern may be adjusted by the operation on the touch screen, which may be convenient and the user experience may be good.
  • a fifth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a system 500 for obtaining a nail region image of a nail printing apparatus.
  • the system 500 may implement a method for obtaining the nail region image.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the system 500 for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the fourth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the system 500 for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the system may obtain the first color and the second color from the image of the user's nail.
  • the system may initiate a predetermined nail segmentation algorithm to obtain the region image of the nail.
  • the predetermined nail segmentation algorithm may be not initiated, which may reduce the amount of computation data and help extend the life of the processing device and reduce the waste of electric power.
  • the system 500 for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus may also include:
  • a sixth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a method for processing an image of a nail printing apparatus based on the foregoing embodiment.
  • a system for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus may perform the method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the system may be implemented by means of hardware and/or software and usually integrated in the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure may be configured to process a pattern to be printed.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the touch screen may be the touch screen of the first embodiment in the present disclosure.
  • the system may include:
  • the center of the second pattern may overlap the center of the user's nail model.
  • the at least a portion of the second pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be a printing pattern.
  • the user may click the first pattern.
  • the second pattern corresponding to the first pattern may be directly displayed in the second region.
  • the second pattern may overlap the center of the user's nail model, and the user may not need to drag the pattern to the position of the user's nail model, and the operation is simple and quick.
  • the second pattern may directly cover the user's nail model. Image elements in the second pattern may be substantially on the user's nail model, and a count of times that the user adjusts the second pattern may be reduced, which is advantageous for improving the efficiency for adjusting the pattern.
  • the printing pattern may be highlighted to facilitate the user to view the printing effect of the portion of the pattern printed on the nail to adjust the pattern located within the user's nail model.
  • An extension direction of the user's nail model may be parallel to an up and down direction of a sight of the user on the display interface of the touch screen.
  • the extension direction of the user's nail model may be perpendicular to a left and right direction of the sight of the user.
  • the size of the second pattern may be automatically adjusted to match the size of the user's nail model.
  • the first pattern may be only for the user to view the selection. The size may be relatively small, and the user may see the pattern clearly.
  • the size of the second pattern corresponding to the first pattern may be automatically adjusted according to the size of the user's nail model, which may reduce a count of times that the user adjusts the second pattern, and be good for viewing.
  • the center of the second pattern may follow the center of the user's nail model to move synchronously. When the user's nail model is rotated, the second pattern may remain in the same orientation.
  • the position of the nail is not accurate enough, the user may adjust the position of the nail, the user's nail model may move following the nail synchronously, the center of the second pattern may move following the movement of the center position of the user's nail model and the user may not need to drag the second pattern manually to cover the second pattern on the adjusted positon of the user's nail.
  • Such high intelligence may need no user operation, requiring little time and few efforts thereby, enhancing the user experience and being beneficial to the improvement of the printing efficiency.
  • the method may include:
  • each step of the method for obtaining the nail region image of the nail printing apparatus provided in this embodiment may refer to the steps of the nail printing method in the second embodiment, and the steps may be not explained and illustrated in this embodiment.
  • the sixth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the second pattern coinciding with the selected first pattern may be displayed in the second region.
  • the center of the second pattern may overlap the user's nail model.
  • the user may select the preferred first pattern by a single touch.
  • the second pattern that matches the selected first pattern image may be automatically overlapped the user's nail model and overlapped the center of the user's nail model. It may be easier to select the pattern for printing, which may reduce the complexity of the user operation and improve the user experience.
  • the user may visually see the portion of the pattern overlapped the user's nail model, which may be convenient for the user to adjust the second pattern, and be beneficial to improve the printing effect and the user satisfaction.
  • a seventh embodiment of the present disclosure may also provide a method for processing an image of a nail printing apparatus.
  • This embodiment may provide a solution for adjusting a position and/or size of a second pattern based on the foregoing embodiments.
  • the method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the adjustment instruction may include a movement instruction and a multi-touch instruction for proportionally zooming in or out.
  • the movement instruction may be used to move the position of the second pattern.
  • the second pattern may be proportionally scaled according to the multi-touch instruction for proportionally zooming in or out.
  • the adjustment instruction may include a rotation instruction, a horizontal mirror instruction and a vertical mirror instruction.
  • the first interface may include a rotation icon, a horizontal mirroring icon and a vertical mirroring icon.
  • the rotation icon may be configured to generate the rotation instruction based on touch of the user.
  • the horizontal mirroring icon may be configured to generate the horizontal mirror instruction based on the touch of the user.
  • the vertical mirroring icon may be configured to generate the vertical mirror instruction based on the touch of the user. It may be convenient for the user to quickly adjust the second pattern to improve printing efficiency by setting common shortcuts for image adjustment.
  • the seventh embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the position and size of the second pattern may be adjusted by the touch mode on the touch screen.
  • the operation may be simple, and the user may facilitate to adjust the pattern printed on the nail by adjusting the position and size of the second pattern.
  • the user may also view the pattern printed on the nail by the user's nail model.
  • an eighth embodiment of the present disclosure may also provide a method for processing an image of a nail printing apparatus.
  • This embodiment may provide a solution for adjusting a position of a second pattern based on the foregoing embodiments.
  • the method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the eighth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the position of the second pattern corresponding to the center alignment instruction may overlap the center of the user's nail model according to the center alignment instruction.
  • the user may adjust at least a portion of the second pattern to overlap the user's nail model quickly, which may allow the user to select the at least a portion of the second pattern as the printing pattern quickly.
  • a ninth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a system 900 for processing image of a nail printing apparatus.
  • the system 900 may implement the method for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the system 900 for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the ninth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the system for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the second pattern coinciding with the selected first pattern may be displayed in the second region.
  • the center of the second pattern may overlap the user's nail model.
  • the user may select the preferred first pattern by a single touch.
  • the second pattern that matches the selected first pattern image may be automatically overlapped the user's nail model and overlapped the center of the user's nail model. It may be easier to select the pattern for printing, which may reduce the complexity of the user operation and improve the user experience.
  • the user may visually see the at least a portion of the pattern overlapped the user's nail model, which may be convenient for the user to adjust the second pattern, and be beneficial to improve the printing effect and the user satisfaction.
  • the system 900 for processing the image of the nail printing apparatus may also include:
  • a tenth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a printing method of a nail printing apparatus based on the foregoing embodiments.
  • a printing system of the nail printing apparatus may perform the printing method of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the system may be implemented by means of hardware and/or softwares and usually integrated in the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus in the first embodiment of the present disclosure may print the user's nail.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the printing method of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the method may include: displaying a printed printing pattern in the second region in real-time.
  • the method may also include: obtaining a region image of the user's nail, wherein the user's nail model is displayed in the second region in real-time, and the user's nail model corresponds to the region image of the user's nail.
  • the method may also include: identifying the first pattern selected by the user in the first region; wherein the second pattern coincides with the selected first pattern.
  • the method may also include receiving a printing instruction.
  • the printing instruction may be generated by touching a printing icon described in the first embodiments by the user.
  • the first interface may also include a third region.
  • the method may also include: displaying an effect print preview of the printing pattern on the user's nail in the third region.
  • the printing method of the nail printing apparatus may also include:
  • the printing the printing pattern based on a printing instruction may include: displaying a printed printing pattern in the second region in real-time.
  • the seventh embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the printing method of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the at least a portion of the pattern overlapped the user's nail model may be used as the printing pattern. Only the portion of the pattern overlapped the user's nail model may be printed during printing thereby reducing the pattern to be printed, saving ink, prolonging a usage time of the ink cartridge, and helping reduce costs.
  • the pattern other than the user's nail model may be not printed. After the printing is completed, no ink may be sprayed on fingers around the nails, and it may be unnecessary to use an anti-overflow glue on the fingers around the nail, which may not only save the cost, but also reduce two processes of coating the anti-overflow glue before the printing and cleaning the anti-overflow glue after the printing and improve the nail printing efficiency.
  • the obtaining the region image of the user's nail may include:
  • the identifying the first pattern selected by the user in the first region may include:
  • an eleventh embodiment of the present disclosure may also provide a printing method of a nail printing apparatus.
  • This embodiment may provide a solution for adjusting a position of the second pattern based on the foregoing embodiments.
  • the printing method of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the eleventh embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the printing method of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the user may adjust the second pattern according to the touch screen, which may be convenient for the user to adjust the pattern printed on the nail by adjusting the position and the size of the second pattern.
  • the user may also view the pattern printed on the nail through the user's nail model.
  • an eleventh embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a printing system 1200 of a nail printing apparatus.
  • the system 1200 may implement the printing method of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen.
  • the touch screen may be configured to display the first interface.
  • the first interface may include a first region and a second region.
  • the first region may include a plurality of first patterns.
  • the printing system 1200 of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the twelfth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the printing method 1200 of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the at least a portion of the pattern overlapped the user's nail model may be used as the printing pattern. Only the portion of the pattern overlapped the user's nail model may be printed during printing thereby reducing the pattern to be printed, saving ink, prolonging a usage time of the ink cartridge, and helping reduce costs.
  • the pattern other than the user's nail model may be not printed.
  • the printing system 1200 of the nail printing apparatus may also include:
  • the obtaining module may include:
  • the pattern identification module may include:
  • FIG. 15 is a structural diagram illustrating a nail printing method and/or a method for obtaining a nail image of a nail printing apparatus and/or a system for obtaining a nail image of a nail printing apparatus, an image processing method of a nail printing apparatus and/or an image processing system of a nail printing apparatus, a printing method of a nail printing apparatus and/or a printing system of the nail printing apparatus 800 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the nail printing apparatus may be any computing device capable of data process capability, e.g., a server or a server cluster.
  • the nail printing apparatus shown in the figure may be merely an example and should not impose any limitation on the function and scope of use of the embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the nail printing apparatus 800 may include a processing device (e.g., a central processor, a graphics processor, etc.) 801.
  • the nail printing apparatus 800 may execute various appropriate actions and processes according to programs stored in the read-only storage (ROM) 802 or programs loaded from the storage device 808 to the random access storage (RAM) 803.
  • the RAM 803 may store various programs and data required by the operations of the nail printing apparatus 800.
  • the processing device 801, the ROM 802, and the RAM 803 may be connected to each other via a bus 804.
  • An input/output (I/O) interface 805 may be also connected to bus 804.
  • a following device may connect to the I/O interface 805, such as an input device 806, e.g., a touch screen, a touchpad, a keyboard, a mouse, a camera, a microphone, an accelerometer or a gyroscope; an output device 807 e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD), a speaker, a vibrator; a storage device 808 e.g., a tape and a hard disk; and a communication device 809.
  • the communication device 809 may allow the nail printing apparatus 800 to perform wireless or wired communication with other devices to switch data.
  • the nail printing apparatus 800 may have various devices as shown, it should be understood that the implementation or the possession of all of the illustrated devices may be not required.
  • the nail printing apparatus 800 may be implemented alternatively or have more or fewer devices.
  • a fourteenth embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a printing method of a nail printing apparatus used for nail printing a user's nail based on the foregoing embodiment.
  • the nail printing apparatus may be the nail printing apparatus in the foregoing embodiments.
  • the print method of the nail printing apparatus may include:
  • the nail image may be obtained by the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail image may be taken by a camera device of the nail printing apparatus in the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the nail image may be processed by a nail recognition and segmentation algorithm to obtain the nail contour of the user.
  • the nail recognition and segmentation algorithm may be a method in the image processing, and in particular, how to obtain the nail contour may be not limited.
  • the user's nail model corresponding to the nail contour may be displayed.
  • a shape of the user's nail model may coincide with a shape of the nail contour, and a size of the user's nail model may be the same as or different from a size of the nail contour.
  • the nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen configured to display a first interface.
  • the first interface may include a second region.
  • the identifying a nail contour from the nail image and displaying a user's nail model corresponding to the nail contour may include: identifying the nail contour from the nail image, and displaying the user's nail model corresponding to the nail contour in the second region.
  • the nail printing apparatus may be the nail printing apparatus in the foregoing embodiment of the disclosure, and the second region may be not specifically described.
  • the predetermined image library may include a plurality of patterns, and the user may touch and select one from the plurality of patterns.
  • the first interface may further include a first region.
  • the first region may be used for displaying the predetermined image library.
  • the first pattern included in the predetermined image library may be the first patterns in the first region in the first embodiment of the disclosure.
  • the predetermined image library may be a general call for the plurality of first patterns in the first region.
  • the selecting a pattern from the predetermined image library may include single-clicking to select the pattern, double-clicking to select the pattern, or dragging the pattern.
  • a pattern to be printed may be generated in the second region.
  • the pattern to be printed may be the second pattern in the first embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • a size of the pattern to be printed may be greater than, less than, or equal to a size of the user's nail model.
  • the size of the pattern to be printed may be larger than the size of the user's nail model for subsequent adjustment by the user.
  • the selecting the pattern from the a predetermined image library, generating the print to be printed, the pattern to be printed overlapping the user's nail model may include: singe-clicking to select the pattern from the predetermined image in the first region, and generating the pattern to be printed coinciding with the selected pattern in the second region, the pattern to be printed overlapping the user's nail model displayed in the second region.
  • the first interface may further include a third region.
  • the third region may be used for displaying a print effect image that the second pattern may match the user's nail model, i.e., determining a portion of the second pattern that matches a shape and the size of the user's nail model, fitting thereof with the user's nail model and then displaying thereof in the third region. Therefore, the user may preview the effect of printing the print pattern on the nail in the third region, so that the user may select the favorite pattern and adjust the pattern to an optimal printing effect, which is highly practical.
  • the adjusting the pattern to be printed may include adjusting the position and/or size of the pattern to be printed to adjust the pattern to be printed overlapped the user's nail model at different positions, or making the pattern to be printed located in the user's nail model.
  • the adjusting the pattern to be printed may include a rotation adjustment, a horizontal mirror adjustment, a vertical mirror adjustment, a position adjustment, or a size adjustment.
  • the printing pattern may be adjusted in the second region e.g., proportionally scaling the pattern to be printed by multi-touching the touch screen and/or dragging the pattern to be printed through the touch screen.
  • the adjusting the pattern to be printed may be specifically referred to the nail printing apparatus in the first embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the target nail may include a fingernail, a toenail or an artificial nail.
  • the portion of the adjusted pattern to be printed overlapped the user's nail model may be printed on the target nail, i.e., the pattern may be only printed within the contour of the user's nail. Only the pattern within the nail contour may be printed, which may save the ink, the ink may be not printed on the finger outside the nail, and further processing may be not required after the printing is completed, thereby improving the nail printing efficiency.
  • the embodiment of the present disclosure may provide the printing method of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the nail contour may be identified from the nail image and the user's nail model corresponding to the nail contour may be displayed.
  • the pattern may be selected from the predetermined image library to generate the pattern to be printed.
  • the pattern to be printed may overlap the user's nail model.
  • the pattern to be printed may be adjusted and the adjusted pattern to be printed may be printed on the target nail.
  • the pattern to be printed on the target nail may be selected quickly and the pattern to be printed may be conveniently adjusted after selecting the pattern to obtain the desired size or desired position.
  • nail printing apparatus in the forgoing embodiments of the present disclosure may supplement and explain the printing method of the nail printing apparatus in this embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the present disclosure may disclosure a computer readable medium storing a computer program.
  • the nail printing method and/or the method for obtaining the nail image of the nail printing apparatus and/or the image processing method of the nail printing apparatus and/or the printing method of the nail printing apparatus provided by any of the above embodiments may be implemented.
  • the nail printing method and/or the method for obtaining the nail image of the nail printing apparatus and/or the image processing method of the nail printing apparatus and/or the printing method of the nail printing apparatus referred to the flowchart described above may be implemented as a computer software program.
  • an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a computer program product comprising a computer program embodied on the computer readable medium.
  • the computer program may include program codes for executing the method shown in the flowchart.
  • the computer program may be downloaded and installed from the network via the communication apparatus 809, or installed from the storage apparatus 808, or installed from the ROM 802.
  • the nail printing method and/or the method for obtaining the nail image of the nail printing apparatus and/or the image processing method of the nail printing apparatus and/or the printing method of the nail printing apparatus of the embodiment of the present disclosure may be executed the functions defined in the method and/or the nail printing apparatus image processing method and/or the printing method of the nail printing apparatus.
  • the computer readable medium of the present disclosure may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium or a combination thereof.
  • the computer readable storage medium may include but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semi conductive system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of thereof. More specific examples of the machine readable storage medium may include electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of thereof.
  • the computer readable medium may be any tangible medium that may contain or store a program.
  • the program may be used by an instruction execution system, an apparatus, a component or a combination thereof.
  • the computer readable signal medium may include a data signal propagated in the baseband or as part of a carrier.
  • the computer readable signal medium may carry the computer readable program code.
  • the propagated signal may be in a variety of forms, including but being not limited to electro-magnetic, optical, or the like, or any suitable combination thereof.
  • the computer readable signal medium may be any computer readable medium other than the computer readable storage medium, which may communicate, propagate, or transport a program used by the instruction execution system, apparatus, device, or a combination thereof.
  • the program code embodied in the computer readable signal medium may be transmitted by any appropriate medium, including but being not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, or the like, or any suitable combination thereof.
  • the computer readable medium may be included in the nail printing apparatus, and may exist independently and not be incorporated in the nail printing apparatus.
  • the computer readable medium may carry one or more programs.
  • the nail printing apparatus may be directed to: obtain at least two internet protocol addresses; transmit, to a node evaluation device, a node evaluation request of the at least two internet protocol addresses, wherein the node evaluation device selects an internet protocol address from the at least two internet protocol addresses and returns thereto; receive the internet protocol address returned by the node evaluation device; wherein the obtained internet protocol address indicates an edge node in a content distribution network.
  • the computer readable medium may carry one or more programs.
  • the nail printing apparatus may be directed to: receive a node evaluation request of at least two internet protocol addresses; select an internet protocol address from the at least two internet protocol addresses; and return to the selected internet protocol address; wherein the received internet protocol address indicates an edge node in a content distribution network.
  • the computer program code for performing the operations of the present disclosure may be written in one or more programming languages, or a combination thereof.
  • the programming language may include object oriented programming languages such as Java, Smalltalk, C++; and conventional procedural programming languages such as the "C" language or similar programming languages.
  • the program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as an independent software package, partly on the user's computer, partly on a remote computer, or entirely on the remote computer or server.
  • the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer via any kind of network, e.g., including a local region network (LAN) or a wide region network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computer (e.g., using an Internet service provider to connect over the Internet).
  • LAN local region network
  • WAN wide region network
  • each block in the flowchart or the block diagram may represent a module, a program segment, or a portion of code, which may include one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical functions.
  • the functions noted in the blocks may also occur in a different order other than those illustrated in the drawings. For example, two successively blocks may be executed substantially in parallel, and may be executed in reverse order sometimes, which may depend upon the involved function.
  • each block of the block diagrams and/or flowcharts, and a combination of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowcharts may be implemented by a dedicated hardware-based system that performs the specified function or operation, or may be implemented by a combination of dedicated hardware and computer instructions.
  • the modules or units described in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by means of software or by hardware.
  • the name of the unit may not constitute a limitation on the unit itself under certain circumstances.
  • the first obtaining unit may also be described as "a unit that obtains at least two internet protocol addresses.”
  • the above description may be only a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure and a description of the principles of the applied technology.
  • Those skilled in the art should understand that the disclosure scope of the present disclosure may be not limited to the specific combination of the technical features, and other technical solutions formed by any combination of the technical features or their equivalent features may be also included without departing from the disclosed concept.
  • the feature may be formed by replacing the feature disclosed in the present disclosure (but being not limited to) with a technology feature having a similar function.

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